Chapter 2210
Successful Capture
Xu Damao's car attracted all of Yan Bugui's attention, so he didn't notice anything amiss with the others in the courtyard.
The next morning, after breakfast, Yan Bugui prepared to set off.
"I'm going to find Liberation today."
After leaving those words, Yan Bugui departed from the courtyard house.
As soon as he left, everyone in the courtyard suddenly appeared.
Everyone was dressed in thick clothes and wearing hats, clearly intending to follow them secretly.
Yi Zhonghai realized this wouldn't work.
With so many people following, it was impossible to keep it a secret.
"We can't have so many people go. Just me and Lao Liu will be fine."
Others expressed some regret, but no one objected.
The three women were somewhat unhappy and wanted to catch Yan Bugui red-handed and ask him why he had done such a shameful thing.
"Old Yi, I want to come along."
Yi Zhonghai said, "You'd better not follow him. I'm afraid if you see him, you won't be able to accept it and you'll start a fight with him outside."
Liu Haizhong chimed in, "Yes, it's true. Picking up trash is shameful enough as it is."
If you two start arguing again, it will be even more embarrassing.
If you come along, Lao Yi and I won't go.
I don't want to embarrass myself in the street.
If we really let the third aunt follow Yan Bugui alone, would she still have the guts? Plus, with everyone else persuading her, we had no choice but to give up.
As Yi Zhonghai was leaving, he asked, "You didn't tell him last night, did you?"
The woman said angrily, "I didn't speak to him last night. He didn't know."
Liu Haizhong urged, "Let's hurry up and go. Don't waste any more time."
If we delay any longer, he'll get far away.
Yi Zhonghai and Liu Haizhong set off together, following behind Yan Bugui.
Yan Bugui hadn't expected anyone to be following him and hadn't been on guard at all.
He first went to his stronghold, changed into tattered clothes, and covered his face with a hat before leaving.
In another dilapidated courtyard, Yi Zhonghai and Liu Haizhong's figures came into view.
"Didn't he say a while ago that he was going to throw away this whole outfit?"
Yi Zhonghai snorted: "He wouldn't bear to throw it away. We've all been fooled by him."
Thinking back to the last time, he was playing chess with Liu Haizhong in the courtyard when he saw Yan Bugui carrying this old set of clothes.
Yi Zhonghai was so angry he wanted to grind his teeth.
He actually believed Yan Bugui's nonsense and was going to throw away his cotton-padded coat.
Looking back now, even if the cotton-padded coat had been damaged, Yan Bugui wouldn't have thrown it away given his personality.
Yan Bugui would definitely take the cotton out and put it in other clothes.
They would also keep the fabric from their cotton-padded coats to use as rags and for patching.
It shouldn't be thrown away no matter what.
"Let's go and see how he collects recyclables."
The two followed Yan Bugui and saw him rummaging through trash cans, picking through other people's unwanted garbage, which made them feel particularly ashamed.
Liu Haizhong stepped forward, trying to stop Yan Bugui, but was stopped by Yi Zhonghai.
"Why are you stopping me? I'm going to call him back, so he doesn't embarrass himself like that."
Yi Zhonghai shook his head slightly: "Aren't you ashamed? Let's go to his hideout and wait for him."
Liu Haizhong also realized what was going on: "Right, let's wait for him to come to us and catch him like a turtle in a jar."
The two of them stopped following Yan Bugui and returned to Yan Bugui's stronghold together.
Upon arriving at Yan Bugui's hideout, the two men were even more disgusted with the things Yan Bugui had accumulated.
Liu Haizhong found a rock, tore off a piece of cardboard from Yan Bugui, placed it on the rock, and sat down.
"That old Yan is getting more and more outrageous. He's picking up trash behind our backs for a few stinking bucks."
Is it really true, as Sha Zhu said, that he tastes the manure truck to check its saltiness when it passes by?
Yi Zhonghai paced back and forth, growing angrier with each step: "This is outrageous!"
“Yes, it’s outrageous. When we get back, we must hold a hospital-wide meeting to criticize and self-criticize Old Yan.” Liu Haizhong was preparing to give Yan Bugui a profound lesson. Yi Zhonghai, however, said, “I’m not talking about Old Yan, I’m talking about Sha Zhu.”
Liu Haizhong didn't quite understand what he meant. What did Yan Bugui's garbage-collecting have to do with He Yuzhu?
"You mean, Sha Zhu made him do it?"
Yi Zhonghai said, "Even if Sha Zhu didn't make him do it, Sha Zhu forced him to."
Sha Zhu is so rich, he could easily give us a good life with just a little money.
He wouldn't take a single penny.
Seeing that we can't make ends meet.
Old Yan is like this because he forced him into this state.
Inside courtyard number 95, fallacies and heresies are the most prevalent.
The truth is often the most disbelieved.
Yi Zhonghai simply wanted to shift the blame onto He Yuzhu, but Liu Haizhong had no suspicions whatsoever.
"You're right, it's all Sha Zhu's fault, and Xu Damao's fault is also significant."
The two were having a heated discussion about He Yuzhu and Xu Damao's mistakes until Yan Bugui returned with his things.
When Yan Bugui saw the two, his first reaction was to hide. Knowing that he couldn't hide, he could only stop.
Yan Bugui turned his head and gave an awkward smile.
Liu Haizhong questioned him, "How dare you laugh? Aren't you ashamed?"
Yan Bugui had calmed down by now, and wiped the dust off his face: "It's not shameful."
Upon hearing this, Yi Zhonghai was furious that Yan Bugui was so stubborn and unyielding.
Do you know why we're here?
Yan Bugui put his things down: "You just want to catch me red-handed so you can laugh at me, right?"
"Forget it," Liu Haizhong said. "Who has time to laugh at you?"
"I'll call them right now and have Yan Jiecheng and the others come over so they can have a good look at this."
Yan Bugui panicked upon hearing this: "Old Liu, if you tell them, I'll break off all ties with you."
Yi Zhonghai said, "We can keep quiet, but you can't do this anymore."
That's so embarrassing.
Liu Haizhong pointed around: "I'm going to destroy your hideout."
Yan Bugui had no choice but to tell the truth: "Why can't you two understand?"
We have no income now, and we live off our savings and pensions.
How much money do those have?
What if, I mean what if, any one of us gets a headache or fever, and we can't even afford to see a doctor?
"If we don't find a way to make some money, what will we do when something really goes wrong?"
Yan Bugui's question stumped the two men.
Liu Haizhong really doesn't have much money; he lives off his pension.
Yi Zhonghai still has money, but not much.
At Qin Huairu's rate of needing money, that gold wouldn't last more than a few months.
Yi Zhonghai has been troubled by this matter.
The only hope lies with Bang Geng. But Bang Geng is heavily in debt.
Every month, he would give his earnings to Tang Yanling so that she could repay her family's debts.
Liu Haizhong said, "Even if you want to find a way to make money, you can't do it this way."
"You can only earn so much money by collecting recyclables, isn't that shameful enough?"
Yi Zhonghai nodded: "Yes, Lao Yan. We are indeed short of money, but how much can you make from this?"
Since Qin Huairu started taking care of him, Yi Zhonghai has become completely uncaring, not even bothering to pick up a fallen soy sauce bottle.
Qin Huairu handled everything for him; he only had one task: to provide the money.
If he hadn't been communicating with Yan Bugui every day, he wouldn't even know how much a steamed bun cost.
Moreover, Yi Zhonghai spends all his time thinking about people like He Yuzhu and Xu Damao who make money.
Before he knew it, he had developed a habit of being ambitious but lacking practical skills.
He had no idea how much the scrap metal was worth. (End of Chapter)